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Installing a PixieBrix Pre-Release Build
📈 Pro-tip: If you already have PixieBrix installed in Chrome, you don't need to uninstall in order to install a pre-release build. Chrome will replace the version you have installed with the pre-release build and keep your settings/bricks intact
You use the same PixieBrix account for official releases and pre-release builds. If you do not already have an account, visit https://app.pixiebrix.com/login and connect a Google or Microsoft account
You must be logged into GitHub to download builds from GitHub (a free account is OK)
- 1.Find the latest build: https://github.com/pixiebrix/pixiebrix-extension/actions/workflows/release.yaml
- 2.Click the build to open its detail page
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- 3.At the bottom of the detail page, click on the
build-production
artifact to download a zip. The zipped artifact is ~10mb, and can may take 10-30 seconds to download from GitHub's build servers
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- 1.Unzip the release build to a location on your computer
- 2.Open the Chrome extensions screen:
chrome://extensions/
- 3.Toggle Developer Mode (upper right) to ON
- 4.Click Load Unpacked and select the unzipped extension folder
- 5.A PixieBrix card will be added to the extensions page:
- 1.When the PixieBrix extension loads for the first time, it will show an onboarding page. Click "Link Extension"
- 2.To verify that the extension has been linked to your PixieBrix account, visit https://app.pixiebrix.com/. You should see a message with the version number you installed:
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